..We hypothesized that food insecurity would be associated with poor virologic response among homeless and marginally housed HIV-positive ARV-treated patients...

Food insecurity is associated with morbidity and patterns of healthcare utilization among HIV-infected individuals in a resource-poor setting

Sheri D WeiserDivision of HIV AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, USAAIDS 26:67-75. 2012

..We undertook a longitudinal study in rural Uganda to understand the association of food insecurity with morbidity and patterns of healthcare utilization among HIV-infected individuals enrolled in an antiretroviral therapy program...

Food insecurity among homeless and marginally housed individuals living with HIV/AIDS in San Francisco

..88) and stimulant use disorders (AOR = 4.45) were associated with greater odds of acute care use. Housing and effective treatment of depression and stimulant use disorders may decrease use of acute care services in this population...

Food insecurity is associated with greater acute care utilization among HIV-infected homeless and marginally housed individuals in San Francisco

..To investigate whether time on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with improvements in food security and nutritional status, and the extent to which associations are mediated by improved physical health status...

Conceptual framework for understanding the bidirectional links between food insecurity and HIV/AIDS

..More research on the relative importance of each of these pathways is warranted because effective interventions to reduce food insecurity and HIV depend on a rigorous understanding of these multifaceted relationships...

Housing patterns and correlates of homelessness differ by gender among individuals using San Francisco free food programs

..These results suggest the need to characterize homelessness and develop effective homeless interventions separately for men and women...

Reversal of the Kynurenine pathway of tryptophan catabolism may improve depression in ART-treated HIV-infected Ugandans

Priscilla MartinezNorwegian Center for Addiction Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Alcohol Research Group, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Division of Global Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Division of HIV AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, CA Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA and Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard, Boston, MAJ Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 65:456-62. 2014

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Sexual relationship power and depression among HIV-infected women in Rural Uganda

Abigail M HatcherDivision of HIV AIDS, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USAPLoS ONE 7:e49821. 2012

..Low sexual relationship power also contributes to HIV risk, but there is limited understanding of how it relates to mental health among HIV-infected women...

Food insecurity as a barrier to sustained antiretroviral therapy adherence in Uganda

Sheri D WeiserDivision of HIV AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 5:e10340. 2010

Sheri D WeiseraDivision of HIV AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco UCSF, San Francisco bDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California cDepartment of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina dMassachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA eMbarara University of Science and Technology Mbarara, Uganda fUnited Nations World Food Programme, Rome, Italy gDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF, San Francisco, California hRagon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard University iDepartment of Global Health and Social Equity, Harvard Medical School jDepartment of Global Health and Populations, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USAAIDS 28:115-20. 2014

..We undertook a longitudinal study in rural Uganda to estimate the associations between food insecurity and HIV treatment outcomes...

Food insecurity and HIV/AIDS: current knowledge, gaps, and research priorities

..We assessed how different patterns of housing instability affect incarceration and whether correlates of incarceration are gender specific...

Transportation costs impede sustained adherence and access to HAART in a clinic population in southwestern Uganda: a qualitative study

David M TullerSchool of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USAAIDS Behav 14:778-84. 2010

..Our findings suggest that transportation costs can compromise both ARV adherence and access to care. Interventions that address this barrier will be important to ensure the success of ARV programs in sub-Saharan Africa...

Prevalence and correlates of forced sex perpetration and victimization in Botswana and Swaziland

Alexander C TsaiDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, USAAm J Public Health 101:1068-74. 2011

..We sought to identify correlates of forced sex perpetration among men and victimization among women in Botswana and Swaziland...

Gender-specific correlates of sex trade among homeless and marginally housed individuals in San Francisco

Depression and HIV in Botswana: a population-based study on gender-specific socioeconomic and behavioral correlates

Reshma GuptaDepartment of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 5:e14252. 2010

..However, depression screening and treatment are limited in sub-Saharan Africa, and there are few population-level studies examining the prevalence and gender-specific factors associated with depression...

..To delineate the association between baseline socioeconomic status (SES) indicators and mortality and lost to follow-up (LTFU) in a cohort of HIV-infected individuals enrolled in antiretroviral therapy (ART) in urban Uganda...

Treatment as long-term prevention: sustained reduction in HIV sexual transmission risk with use of antiretroviral therapy in rural Uganda